Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK 作者： 来源： 发布时间：2021-06-07
I. Population and Area
Continent: Europe
Country: The U.K
State/Province: England
City/Town: Norwich, Norfolk
Total Area:20.31 (sq mi)
Population in 2018: 142.0（thousand）
II. Natural Geography (environment and resources)
Norwich is 100 miles (161 km) north-east of London, 102 miles (164 km) east of Leicester, 130 miles (209 km) east-north-east of Birmingham, 40 miles (64 km) north of Ipswich and 65 miles (104 km) east of Peterborough.
Road
Norwich stands north of the A47 (bypassed to the south of the city), which connects it with Great Yarmouth to the east, and King’s Lynn and Peterborough to the west. There are plans to upgrade the A47, especially sections that are still single-carriageway, prompted partly by the ongoing construction of Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour. Norwich is linked to Cambridge via the A11, which leads to the M11 motorway for London and the M25. It is linked to Ipswich to the south by the A140 and to Lowestoft to the south-east by the A146. Norwich has the UK's largest independent car club.
Bus and coach
The bus companies serving Norwich include BorderBus, First Norfolk & Suffolk, Konectbus and Sanders Coaches. Destinations throughout Norfolk and beyond are served, as are Peterborough and Lowestoft. National Express run ten coaches a day to the three main London airports (Stansted, Heathrow and Gatwick), five a day to London, and one a day to Birmingham. Megabus also operates a daily service to London. Most bus and coach services run from Norwich bus station or from Castle Meadow.
Air
Norwich Airport (ICAO code EGSH) is a feeder to KLM's Schiphol hub. Loganair and TUI Airways both serve Norwich. Through Bristow Helicopters, Norwich Airport caters to the offshore oil and gas industry. There is also a strong holiday-charter business there. The airport was originally the airfield of RAF Horsham St Faith. One of the old RAF hangars became the home of Air UK, which grew out of Air Anglia and was then absorbed by the Dutch airline KLM.
Water
The River Yare is navigable from the sea at Great Yarmouth up to Trowse, south of the city. From there the River Wensum is navigable into Norwich up to New Mills, and is crossed by the Novi Sad Friendship Bridge. Scheduled trips through the city and out to the nearby The Broads are run by City Boats from outside Norwich station and also Elm Hill. In June 2012, Norwich City Council gave permission for punting on the River Wensum.
III.Economy
The average salary in Norwich, England: Norfolk is £25k. Trends in wages decreased by -100.0 percent in Q2 2020. The cost of living in Norwich, England: Norfolk is 100 percent higher than the national average. The most popular occupations in Norwich, England: Norfolk are Teaching Assistant (TA), Operations Manager, and Project Manager, (Unspecified Type / General) which pay between £16k and £44k per year. The most popular employers in Norwich, England: Norfolk are Aviva Ltd, The National Health Service (NHS), and Norfolk County Council.
Popular Employers in Norwich, England: Norfolk
The most common companies reported by employees working in Norwich, England: Norfolk.
Aviva Ltd
£19k - £56k
The National Health Service (NHS)
£15k - £49k
Norfolk County Council
£10k - £36k
Aviva PLC
£19k - £53k
Jones Lang LaSalle
£16k - £31k
Reference Website:
https://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Location=Norwich-England%3A-Norfolk/Salary
IV. Industrial Characterisitics
Major industries:
Norfolk has one of the most diverse economies in the UK. As such, it has a huge variety of employment opportunities to suit all interests and skill levels.
The Norfolk economy is diverse, and has been relatively unaffected by the economic downturn. Key sectors include: energy, engineering and advanced manufacturing, finance industries, food and agriculture, health and life science, tourism and creative/ICT.
Norfolk's key sectors are represented by world class industry groups.
Norfolk has an above average share of manufacturing jobs, particularly in food processing - Bernard Mathews, Kettle Foods, Kinnerton Confectionary and Pasta Foods are notable examples.
Again, there is plenty of variety in Norfolk's major urban areas, but many of our largest food processing employers are located in rural areas, as are some of our other major manufacturers - Group Lotus (Norfolk's largest engineering company), Smurfitt Kappa, Banham Poultry and our boat building industry (the second largest community in the UK) is almost exclusively rural.
Norwich is a major centre for the financial industries and one of the largest general insurance centres in Europe. One in three employees in Norwich works in finance and business services. Over 50 national, international and regional companies are based here including world class companies like Aviva, Marsh and Virgin Money.
Major projects and related introductions:
NRP
Ground breaking research into future sciences is supported by the team at the Norwich Research Park (NRP), a centre for research and development, it is one of Europe's largest single-site concentrations of expertise in food, health and environmental sciences, which is underpinned by its research strengths in plant and microbial sciences, diet and nutrition, biomedicine and pharmacy, chemistry and social and computing sciences. The NRP is rapidly growing its commercial activities with 55ha or land ear-marked for science and technology related business development with an aim to create 5,000 new scientific jobs in the next 10-15 years.
Reference Website:
https://www.visitnorfolk.co.uk/Locate-Norfolk.aspx
V. Attractions
1. Norwich Cathedral：
Gleaming white with a striking 315-foot spire-the highest in England after Salisbury Cathedral and famous for its nesting peregrine falcons-Norwich Cathedral was built between 1096 and 1145, and has preserved its Norman character better than any other church in the country.
2. Tombland Alley: The Heart of Historic Norwich：
Once a Saxon marketplace, Tombland Alley is a wonderful place to begin exploring old Norwich. From here, two gates-St. Ethelbert's (1272) and Erpingham (1420)-lead into the idyllic tranquility of the Cathedral Close, with its wealth of historic buildings, including the medieval deanery. It's also close to Elm Hill, a lovely medieval cobbled street near the River Wensum lined with tiny old houses, many of them now attractive shops, restaurants, and cafés.
3. Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery：
Built on a large artificial mound, Norwich Castle consists of a splendid Norman keep constructed around 1095 by William II, which is now home to a superb museum and art gallery. Set out as a rotunda surrounded by various galleries containing extensive archaeological sections, the castle's interior also houses natural history dioramas, collections of medieval weapons, glassware, and ceramics. The painting collection includes English and Dutch masters of the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as examples from the famous Norwich School of painting.
Reference Website:
https://www.planetware.com/tourist-attractions-/norwich-eng-nf-nor.htm
VI. History
The capital of the Iceni tribe was a settlement located near to the village of Caistor St. Edmund on the River Tas approximately 5 miles (8 km) to the south of modern-day Norwich. Following an uprising led by Boudica around AD 60, the Caistor area became the Roman capital of East Anglia named Venta Icenorum, literally "the marketplace of the Iceni".
There are two suggested models of development for Norwich. It is possible that three separate early Anglo-Saxon settlements, one north of the river and two either side on the south, joined together as they grew or that one Anglo-Saxon settlement, north of the river, emerged in the mid-7th century after the abandonment of the previous three. The ancient city was a thriving centre for trade and commerce in East Anglia in 1004 when it was raided and burnt by Swein Forkbeard the Viking king of Denmark. Mercian coins and shards of pottery from the Rhineland dating from the 8th century suggest that long-distance trade was happening long before this.
The first recorded presence of Jews in Norwich is 1134.In 1144, the Jews of Norwich were falsely accused of ritual murder after a boy (William of Norwich) was found dead with stab wounds. William acquired the status of martyr and was subsequently canonised. Pilgrims made offerings to a shrine at the Cathedral (largely finished by 1140) up to the 16th century, but the records suggest there were few of them.In 1174, Norwich was sacked by the Flemings. In February 1190, all the Jews of Norwich were massacred except for a few who found refuge in the castle.
The Norwich Canary was first introduced into England by Flemings fleeing from Spanish persecution in the 16th century. Along with their advanced techniques in textile working, they brought pet canaries which they began to breed locally; eventually becoming, in the 20th century, a mascot of the city and the emblem of its football club, Norwich City F.C., whose nickname is "The Canaries".
VII. Culture
Art and music
Each year the Norfolk and Norwich Festival celebrates the arts, drawing many visitors into the city from all over eastern England. The Norwich Twenty Group, founded in 1944, presents exhibitions of its members to promote awareness of modern art. Norwich was home to the first arts festival in Britain in 1772. Norwich Arts Centre is a notable live music venue, concert hall and theatre located in St Benedict's Street. The King of Hearts in Fye Bridge Street is another centre for art and music. Norwich has a thriving music scene based around local venues such as the University of East Anglia LCR, Norwich Arts Centre, The Waterfront and Epic Studios. Live music, mostly contemporary musical genres, is also to be heard at a number of other public house and club venues around the city. The city is host to many artists that have achieved national and international recognition such as Cord, The Kabeedies, Serious Drinking, Tim Bowness, Sennen, Magoo, Let's Eat Grandma and KaitO.
Theatres
Norwich has theatres ranging in capacity from 100 to 1,300 seats and offering a wide variety of programmes. The Theatre Royal is the largest and has been on its present site for nearly 250 years, through several rebuildings and many alterations. It has 1,300 seats and hosts a mix of national touring productions including musicals, dance, drama, family shows, stand-up comedians, opera and pop.
Museums
Norwich has a number of important museums which reflect the rich history of the city and of Norfolk, as well as wider interests. The largest is the Norwich Castle Museum. This has extensive collections of archaeological finds from the county of Norfolk, of art (including a fine collection of paintings by the Norwich School of painters), of ceramics (including the largest collection of British teapots), of silver, and of natural history. Of particular interest are dioramas of Norfolk scenery, showing wildlife and landscape. It has been extensively remodelled to enhance the display of the many collections and hosts frequent temporary exhibitions of art and other subjects.
VIII. Other information
Norwich is the headquarters of BBC East, its presence in the east of England, and BBC Radio Norfolk, BBC Look East, Inside Out and The Politics Show are all broadcast from BBC studios in The Forum. Independent radio stations based in Norwich include Heart, Smooth Radio, 99.9 Radio Norwich, and the University of East Anglia's Livewire 1350, an online station. A community station, Future Radio, was launched on 6 August 2007.
ITV Anglia, formerly Anglia Television, is based in Norwich. Although one of the smaller ITV companies, it supplied the network with some of its most popular shows such as Tales of the Unexpected, Survival and Sale of the Century (1971–1983), which began each edition with John Benson's enthusiastic announcement: "And now from Norwich, it's the quiz of the week!" The company also had a subsidiary called Anglia Multimedia, which produced educational content on CD and DVD mainly for schools, and was one of the three companies, along with Granada TV and the BBC vying for the right to produce a digital television station for English schools and colleges.
IX. Contact information
Mayor/Officer: Vaughan Thomas
Tel: 0344 980 3333
Mail: @NorwichCC（twitter）